WHICH MULTI-VITAMIN SHOULD I BE TAKING?

Why taking a Food Form Multivitamin is better for you than taking a Synthetic Multivitamin

It's very doubtful that any single pill can pack enough vitamins and minerals to truly make any real difference in complementing your healthy diet.

Producers of multivitamins have come up with some pretty amazing ways to compress natural nutrients, but not to this extreme… not down to where a single tablet provides you the vitamin and mineral levels you need. Not all multivitamins are created equal.


A food form multivitamin is one which is derived and made from a purely natural source and has not been synthetically made in a laboratory. As a result, it contains real food ingredients, as nature intended.

A food form multivitamin is made from raw foods, and that makes it as close to natural as is possible - meaning that it is more readily absorbed and used by the body and also, contain no additives, pesticides or preservatives.

Marcus Rohrer Spirulina is a form food multivitamin.

Why you should avoid Synthetic Multivitamins:

Millions gorge themselves on synthetic vitamins, only to acquire and die from degenerative diseases. Isolated vitamins are partial vitamins, combined with other chemicals. They're a low-end alternative to whole, real complete food.

When you remove a part from the whole, you get ‘Synthetic,' ‘Isolated,' or ‘Fractionated' pieces of the whole, but it's simply not the same.

There are four problems with synthetic vitamins…

1. Nature intended for you to consume food in WHOLE form because all the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes are together in one package. They work synergistically to give your body the nutrition it requires for optimal health.

2. Your body only absorbs a small percentage of an isolate form of vitamins and minerals – and it utilizes even less. You get the best bioavailability in whole food form.

3. Synthetic vitamins often give you massive quantities of some nutrients (usually the most inexpensive ones) and insufficient quantities of others, not balance.

4. You can experience side effects of synthetic isolates from the additives and the unnatural state of the synthetic supplement.

Ideally it is best to receive all your nutrition from high quality unprocessed foods. Unfortunately, if you're like most people, you may find it impractical or impossible to eat right one hundred percent of the time.

Therefore, even when you take the steps of adding raw veggies to your diet and getting some exercise and vitamin D, you still might want to hedge your bets by supplementing with a quality multivitamin every day – just to be sure.

It is true that multivitamins do help promote your optimal health and strong immune system, providing support for defence against a growing number of health concerns.

Taking pro-active steps, including taking a multivitamin to help maintain and boost good health and wellness is still one of the best things you can do for yourself and your health.

Especially if you're already adhering to a smart lifestyle with a healthy diet, exercise, adequate sunshine and good sleep.

Why Not Just Eat All-Natural Whole Foods?

Excellent question -- and one you deserve an answer to...
Dr Mercola (www.drmercola.com) has been a proponent of eating whole foods for proper nutrition for years... and now -- eating the proper whole foods based on your Nutritional Type (NT).

So, he recommends taking a high quality multivitamin (like Spirulina) which should complement the food you eat. They do not take the place of a healthful diet of unprocessed organic foods, which he believes is still the best physical factor for you to achieve optimal nutrition.

However, accessing and eating high quality foods regularly may be a personal challenge for most people. Busy schedules may lead people to cook healthy whole food less than they know they should -- and eat "fast food" more.

Even if people do well with their diet choices, another factor involves the actual food supply itself.


A number of carefully controlled studies have provided startling evidence that by the time the food reaches your table, serious nutrient content could already be lost.
Some estimates report the nutrient value lost at over 50%!


This is largely the result of conventional farming methods that rely heavily on chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which deplete the soil of nutrients... nutrients that must be absorbed by plants in order to be passed on to you.


And it does not necessarily end there...


In many cases, it's likely you unknowingly further deplete the nutrients in your food -- just by the way you prepare it. For most food, cooking it will seriously impair its nutritional value.

Posted By Dr. Mercola

www.drmercola.com

So, realizing that you cannot always obtain the whole unprocessed foods you need -- and knowing how easy it is for valuable nutrients to be destroyed – it is really vital to add a good multivitamin to complement your diet - and Marcus Rohrer Spirulina is an ideal food supplement.


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